End-of-life care in the U.S. is increasingly provided in nursing homes (NHs), and over half of all NH residents have some degree of cognitive impairment. Given the prevalence of this cognitive decline, there is a surprising ...

Research has shown that hospital structure, e.g. nursing characteristics, affects patient outcomes. Nursing characteristics have been shown to be better in Magnet® hospitals. Previous studies have found that nursing workforce ...

The Adults with Down Syndrome Specialty Clinic (ADSSC) was established in 2008 to better meet the unique needs of adults with Down syndrome due to many concerns regarding the health care that patients with Down syndrome ...

Despite a large body of evidence supporting breastfeeding as best for infants and mothers, rates still fall short of the Healthy People 2010 Goals. The initiation and duration rates of adolescents are even lower, despite ...

Purpose: Maternal smoking is the greatest modifiable risk factor for the prevention of tobacco-related adverse health outcomes to both the infant and the mother. While nurses working in maternal care units are primed to ...

Introduction: Research shows that individuals with psychiatric disabilities, particularly those with schizophrenia, die on average 25 years earlier than the general population (Marder et al., 2004). Excess mortality is ...

The purpose of this study is to examine relationships between unit-level nursing characteristics (e.g. RN education, certification, RN hours per patient day) and hospital characteristics (e.g. Magnet designated, academic ...

Culture Change is the transformation of a nursing home (NH) from an institutional establishment with a top down approach to decision making to a resident‐centered program that creates an environment that focuses on what ...